More modern industrial, residential and downtown buildings?

CPRailSD40-2

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Most of the buildings on the DLS that are industrial, residential and downtown are all based on old historic buildings. This is a big issue when you are building a route and the area you are building is a fairly new neighbourhood like 20 years old. And any good modern Grocery Stores? I would appreciate a whole foods market just because :)
 
I've been meaning to do some more groceries but there is a fair amount of modern content, if you look for it. I've done some. There are some "superstores" on the DLS which, while not grocery stores, are nonetheless modern. There are also big box stores, a strip mall or two, an enclosed mall, and modern apartments and houses, and so on. You can also kitbash parts (e.g. Davesnow's stores) to make something like a reasonably-modern strip mall.
 
Someone did about 50 or so strip mall sections I just got done DLing with a variety of different details. Same author also made a ton of stand alone stores with signs. I think they were done for TS10/12, but they're still very nice. I forget which author, but I can look when I get home later today if you want.

-Falcus
 
Hi,

Why don't you do some of the Buildings by yourselves?. Seen from a worldwide perspective there are so many different kinds of residential and commercial buildings, that you cannot always expect to find one which matches your requirements. Buildings are kind scenery assets and quite good objects to get into content creation.

Cheers,

Konni
 
Thanks for the replies, speaking of making the buildings myself, I will do some GO Transit and VIA station stuff before I make stores!
 
Thanks for the replies, speaking of making the buildings myself, I will do some GO Transit and VIA station stuff before I make stores!

I would actually 2nd Konni - with some provisions -.

90% of people that talk about what they would make if they would make buildings tend to cherry pick their favorite Railroads buildings. A large variety of which have already been done (I have no idea about GO or VIA tbh, this is just a general trend I've noticed). But then we get posts like this, and people like myself, avidly hunting far more ubiquitous buildings, such as the afore mentioned Industrial/Commercial Buildings.... I once posited that if every Trainz User was shown how to build one Building and upload it to the DLS, and each had to be unique, we would have a building to fit any situation, any location, and any context, for every purpose. It would likely be a lot of Stand-ins, but still.

As another example, one content creator once lamented that, for every 1 request he got for each requestees favorite rare/exotic locomotive, there were probably 25 far more common types/classes of Locomotives that were being forgotten.

I could start posting screenshots and really wax philosophic here, but long story short (Too late), its the "General" stuff we're lacking the most. Trains are awesome, but without the Business' they served, they would have had no purpose and never been built.....

The other provision of course, is that you are of course free to build whatever you want. Disregard what I just said if you care to, but its the way it is. Build one outstanding <Insert Favorite Railroad Here> Building, and every other fan of that railroad will love you. Build one Outstanding General Store/Business Building, and every Trainzer will have a use for it and love you.

Thanks for reading if you have,
-Falcus
 
I would actually 2nd Konni - with some provisions -.

90% of people that talk about what they would make if they would make buildings tend to cherry pick their favorite Railroads buildings. A large variety of which have already been done (I have no idea about GO or VIA tbh, this is just a general trend I've noticed). But then we get posts like this, and people like myself, avidly hunting far more ubiquitous buildings, such as the afore mentioned Industrial/Commercial Buildings.... I once posited that if every Trainz User was shown how to build one Building and upload it to the DLS, and each had to be unique, we would have a building to fit any situation, any location, and any context, for every purpose. It would likely be a lot of Stand-ins, but still.

As another example, one content creator once lamented that, for every 1 request he got for each requestees favorite rare/exotic locomotive, there were probably 25 far more common types/classes of Locomotives that were being forgotten.

I could start posting screenshots and really wax philosophic here, but long story short (Too late), its the "General" stuff we're lacking the most. Trains are awesome, but without the Business' they served, they would have had no purpose and never been built.....

The other provision of course, is that you are of course free to build whatever you want. Disregard what I just said if you care to, but its the way it is. Build one outstanding <Insert Favorite Railroad Here> Building, and every other fan of that railroad will love you. Build one Outstanding General Store/Business Building, and every Trainzer will have a use for it and love you.

Thanks for reading if you have,
-Falcus

No the reason why I said that is because the structures of GO Transit and VIA are WAY easier than building a Whole Foods Market
 
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